But vainly do they worship me, For they teach but the precepts of men.'"

But vainly do they worship me, For they teach but the precepts of men.'

If it is to minister to others, let us devote ourselves to our ministry; the teacher to his teaching,

Whatever was written in the Scriptures in days gone by was written for our instruction, so that, through patient endurance, and through the encouragement drawn from the Scriptures, we might hold fast to our hope.

Then we shall no longer be like infants, tossed backward and forward, blown about by every breath of human teaching, through the trickery and the craftiness of men, towards the snares of error;

For all the things referred to in them cease to exist when used. You are following mere human directions and instructions.

Therefore, let us leave behind the elementary teaching about the Christ and press on to perfection, not always laying over again a foundation of repentance for a lifeless formality, of faith in God--